Mistrial Declared In Cosby Rape Trial

BILL COSBY'S CRIMINAL TRIAL IN
REGARD TO HIS ALLEGED SEXUAL ASSAULT AGAINST A WOMAN NAMED
ANDREA KONSTANTIN HAS ENDED IN A
MISTRIAL.
PROSECUTORS PLAN ON FILING ANOTHER CASE AGAINST HIM.
THE JURY WAS DEADLOCKED, MEANING THEY COULD NOT AGREE ON A
VERDICT.
TO GIVE YOU BACK STORY ON BILL COSBY AND THE VICTIM.
HE
WAS ACCUSED OF SEXUALLY ASSAULTING HER BACK IN 2004.
SHE
FILED A CIVIL LAWSUIT AGAINST
HIM IN 2005 AND THEY DID SETTLE OUT OF COURT.
IN 2015 AFTER
DOZENS OF WOMEN CAME FORWARD AND
ALLEGED THAT HE HAD DRUGGED THEM.
A JUDGE AGREED TO MAKE A
DEPOSITION THAT HE HAD RECORDED IN THE 2015 CASE PUBLIC.
IN THE
DEPOSITION HE ADMITTED TO USING
DRUGS TO DRUG WOMEN THAT HE WAS INTERESTED IN HAVING SEXUAL
RELATIONS WITH.
AND THE CONSTANT STORY HE CLAIMED HE HAD GIVEN
HER BENADRYL TO RELAXER.
THE PROSECUTION BROUGHT FORTH
EXPERTS WHO INDICATED THAT BENADRYL HAS BEEN USED IN THE
PAST BY PEOPLE WHO WANT TO SUBDUE VICTIMS IN ORDER TO TAKE
ADVANTAGE OF THEM.
BUT IT DIDN'T MATTER BECAUSE IT DID END
IN A
MISTRIAL.
ONE OF THE KEY DIFFERENCES TO KEEP IN MIND IS
THE PROSECUTION NOW KNOWS THE
STRATEGY OF THE DEFENSE.
WITH THE RETRIAL THEY WOULD BE BETTER
PREPARED TO COUNTERBALANCE OR AT LEAST MITIGATE ANY TYPE OF
ARGUMENT THE DEFENSE CAN MAKE.
WE WILL SEE HOW IT PLAYS OUT.
KEVIN STEELE WHO WAS THE CAREER PROSECUTOR WILL HAVE INSIGHTS IN
THE TRIAL.
>>I HOPE BILL COSBY BRINGS BACK THAT FAKE BLIND GUY THING.
THAT
IS A GREAT MOVE.
I NEVER GET
TIRED OF IT.
THE OLD INFIRMED BLIND MAN WHO USED TO BE
AMERICA'S FAVORITE DR.
HUXTABLE BEING DRAGGED INTO COURT BY SOME
WOMAN WHO HAS JUST MADE THIS
STUFF UP.
BY THE WAY THERE IS A BIG CHECK WRITTEN TO HER
ALREADY, SHE HAS NO ECONOMIC INTEREST.
HER ONLY INTEREST IS
JUSTICE.
LOOKING FORWARD TO
SEEING BILL AND THAT SAME TIRED WALK HE DOES WHERE HE PRETENDS
HE CAN'T SEE ANYTHING.
HE'S GOING OUT AS ONE OF THE GREATEST
BS ARTISTS IN PRIME TIME TV.
>> THERE WERE MULTIPLE WOMEN WHO CAME FORWARD WHERE THE STATUTE
OF LIMITATIONS HAS ALREADY
PASSED INDICATING THEY ARE NOT NECESSARILY GOING TO GET ANY
TYPE OF JUSTICE.
BUT THEY CAME FORWARD TO SHARE THEIR STORIES
BECAUSE THEY FELT IT WAS IMPORTANT TO TELL THE TRUTH
ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM.
ALSO KEEP IN MIND IT IS NOT AN
EASY THING TO DO.
THEY HAVE BEEN DEMONIZED.
ANY SEXUAL ASSAULT
VICTIM JUST GETS DRAGGED THROUGH
THE MUD WHEN THEY COME FORWARD.
>>THIS MAY HAVE HAD A CHILLING EFFECT ON FUTURE COMPLAINTS AND
IT REALLY MAKES YOU REALIZE WHAT WE PUT VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT
THROUGH.
BY THE TIME YOU GET TO THE END OF IT YOU FEEL MALIGNED
YOURSELF.
>> I WAS GOING TO SAY THAT AS WELL.
THIS IS ALMOST FOR ANYONE
OUT THERE WHO HAS POTENTIALLY
BEEN SEXUALLY ASSAULTED AND IS SCARED OF SPEAKING OUT
ESPECIALLY WHEN SOMEONE IS IN A
POSITION OF POWER.
ONE OF THE MOST UNDERREPORTED AND UNDER
PROSECUTED CRIMES IS ñ ESPECIALLY WHEN THE PERPETRATOR
IS KNOWN OR IS A CELEBRITY.
SPECIFICALLY WHEN IT COMES TO
WOMEN, I GET IT INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY.
BUT THEY ARE
CONSTANTLY ATTACKED BY CHARACTER ñ
>>CHARACTER ASSASSINATION.
>> IT'S ALMOST JUST THROWN OUT THE WINDOW BEFORE YOU CAN HEAR
THEIR CASE.
THERE'S NO SURPRISE WHY SO MANY PEOPLE DON'T WANT TO
COME FORWARD.
THEY FEEL THEY WILL BE LEFT AT OR BE CALLED A
GOLD DIGGER.
THIS WOMAN HAS ALREADY BEEN PAID, BUT SHE WANTS
JUSTICE.
SHE DOESN'T WANT A CASE LIKE THIS TO BE PASSED.
>> ALSO I THINK AT THIS POINT, THERE ARE PROSECUTORS THAT WANT
TO PRESS CHARGES.
THE PROSECUTORS WANT TO DO SOMETHING
ABOUT IT.
I KNOW IN THE PAST WE HAVE DONE A LOT OF STORIES OF
PROSECUTORS DOING THINGS
UNETHICALLY, BUT AT LEAST IN THIS CASE IT SEEMS AS THOUGH THE
PROSECUTOR DOES WANT TO DO THE RIGHT THING.
IT WAS A MISTRIAL.
IT'S NOT LIKE HE WAS FOUND TO BE
INNOCENT OR IT WAS DOUBLE JEOPARDY OR SOMETHING.
THAT IS WHAT IT'S CALLED RIGHT?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY.
>>YES.
YOU ARE RIGHT TO POINT THAT OUT.
YOU'RE MAKING ME
REMEMBER THAT AFTER THE MISTRIAL, THAT IS NOT A VICTORY
ñ THERE IS NO NOT GUILTY VERDICT.
YET THEY ARE
PROCLAIMING THIS VICTORY.
IT CLEARLY INDICATES THAT MY CLIENT
HAS BEEN WRONGLY ACCUSED AND
STUFF.
NOW THEY ARE TRYING TO CREATE THEIR OWN CASE.
THIS GUY
HAS GOT BLOOD ALL OVER HIM AND HE IS DISGUSTING AND DESPICABLE.
IT IS A SAD COMMENT THAT THIS JURY WAS HUNG.
IF YOU LOOK AT
THE DEMOGRAPHICS, BLACK AND WHITE, RICH AND POOR, YOU BEGIN
TO MAYBE START TO DECODE HOW
THIS HAPPENED.
I THINK IT'S THESE PEOPLE THAT WANT TO RETAIN
THEIR VISION OF SWEET DR.
HUXTABLE.
IS INSANITY.
THOSE OF
THE PEOPLE THAT DON'T WANT TO
LET GO OF A NOT GUILTY VERDICT.

Mistrial Declared In Cosby Rape Trial

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